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S'. H U DSON.

Grain' Register` Patented May 26,1868.

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SIDNEY HUDS'N', OYFMILFOA-RD, MICHIGAN.

Leners Param: No. 78,208, dared May 26,1868.

IMPRovsMEn-T IN enatnnnesrnns.

'IO WlIOM IT MAY CONCERN:

.Be it known that I, SIDNEY HUDSON, of Milford, in theeounty of Oakland, in the State of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Machines for Tallying Grain; and I dodeelare thatlthe following is a just, true, and accurate description thereof, referencebeing had .tofthe aceempanyingdravvings', andt'o the letters of referenee marked thereon, making part of this .speeitieation. \"V A i' 5 Figure -1 is `a perspective view of my invention, showing the tallying-apparatuson the end,`a`nd the strikingslide inside the box. i I l' I Figure 2 is a rear View of the tallying-apparatus detached from the box,l

Figure 3 is a front view of the inner disk of the tallying-apparatusl The same letters refer te similar parts in each figure. A

The object of my invention is to make it 'easy to measure and keep the tally ofgrain, as it comes from tin-eshing-machines, by a certain and positive mechanism which saves laborl and prevents mistakes.

To enable those skilled in the art-to fully understand and mauufaeture'my machine, Iwill now proceed to describe it.

A is a proper box or receiver, upon a suitable `standard or frame, O, to be placed under the delivery-spout of a threshing-machine. This bex 'A hasa'bottom, D, 'with an aperture, B, and another aperture similar to B under the striker C. This striker C is worked by eonnecting-rod E, attached to it by a suitable device atP. At its opposite-end this connecting-rod E is attached't'o the crank, F, which is attached to the top of the shaft H. This shaft is provided with a worm, Q. I is a revolving -unit-register, counting from il to 50,'as indicated upon its face. This unit-register I is provided with fty cog's, as shown in fig. 2, which mesh into the -wormnpon the shaft H. This unit-register I has a rim, R, east'upon it, uponl which are cast the fifty cogs' referred to.

Inside this rim Ris placed the register J, which adds or increases by titties, as shown in iig. 3. vThis registerJi is provided with forty-eight eogs, as shown in g. 2, which also me'sllinte the worm on the shaftiH, Both the registers I and J Workv upona common centre, M, and the figures upon the face of the inner register J are exposed to view through the openings N in the unitlregisterl.; K is a'ratchet-attaehed to the bottomof the shaft II, and provided with pawl L te prevent the possibility of reversing the n notion of the apparatus.

Having thus described the various parts ot' my m'achine, I will explain 'themanner of-using it.

We will suppose that the number 1,200, (shown upon the inner-register in fig. 3,)is exposed to view through the opening in the unit-register I,`in iig. 1. Then I- place the box or receiver -under the delivery-spout of a threshing-machine. I place two measures side by side under the bottom, D, of the boxer receiver, and upon the ground er floor G. These measures stand directly under the .apertures B, one of which is closed by the striker C. As'the grain pours into the box, it runs'throug-h the open aperture `and iills the measure underneath. When the measure is full, I turn the crank, F, halt` payround, when the .striker is drawn over the open aperture, and cuts off the grain, which immediately commences to run through the other aperture. When the measure under the last'mentioned aperture is filled, I give the crank another half turn, and the ilow of graimis cutol, and the other aperture is opened, and so on, opening each aperture and filling each measurejalternately. 4Every revolution of the crank, as above described, tallies 1 upon the unit-register, until a complete revolution of the register has been made, when 50" is tallied upon the'v inner register, and exposed to view through the opening in the unit-register. The next revolution tallies 100 upon the inner register, which will be exposed te view in the samevmanner, and`so en, u^ntilA:1,Q0-O has4 been tallied upon the'inner register-,when it recomm-ences at 50 on the innerregister.

What I claim as my invention, and desire te 'secure by.I ietterslatcnt, is-

1.Th e construction of the striker C, and its connections, working over the apertures B, in-the reccivingbox A, substantially as described for the purpose designed.

2. The coinbinatonand arrangement of the striking and tallying-machines, substantially as' described for the purposes indicated.

'SIDNEY HUDSON.

Witnesses:

I H. S. SPRAGUE,

V GEO. RUIILANDT. 

